[ale] Fetchmail IMAP backup

[DJ-Pfulio]

Have the IMAP server do all this processing.  If it cannot, you need a better
server, IMHO.

I've only used fetchmail from cron and only with pop3 services.

These days, we use Zimbra to handle all this sort of stuff. Generally use
virtual folders created based on FROM, TO, and/or keywords.  Zimbra can access
external email systems and do the same things.  Very powerful searching is the
best part that zimbra retained after yahoo sold them off.

On 01/03/2017 10:14 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I'm a bit confused on what I can do with fetchmail with IMAP.  
> 
> I want to connect to a remote IMAP server, fetch email, but not delete them
> (keep).  I want to do this all the time so that I can use procmail on where
> fetchmail is running to search these emails, sort them based on criteria.
> 
> You can't use fetchall and keep in daemon mode and I can't figure out how
> fetchmail knows what it has fetched in the past.  The mailbox belongs to a user
> who needs his email and we need to automatically sort incoming email that is
> sent to him.
> 
> My idea is to use fetchmail on a computer to attach to his IMAP as an IMPA
> client, download, and process via procmail.  I'll look for some criteria and
> then I'll send it to a perl program that will even search XLS files that are
> attached for criteria.
>